Operations Research & Management Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	131
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	92
3	European Journal of Operational Research	76
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	76
5	Management Science	71
6	International Journal of Production Economics	66
-	Technovation	66
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	63
9	International Journal of Production Research	57
10	Safety Science	51
11	IEEE Systems Journal	48
12	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	45
-	Annals of Operations Research	45
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	45
15	Decision Support Systems	44
16	Production and Operations Management	43
17	Computers & Operations Research	41
18	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	37
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	37
20	Journal of Operations Management	34
-	International Journal of Systems Science	34
22	Operations Research	31
23	Transportation Science	29
24	Production Planning & Control	28
25	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	23
-	Informs Journal on Computing	23
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	23
-	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	23
29	Systems & Control Letters	22
30	RAIRO-Operations Research	20
31	Mathematical Programming	19
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	19
-	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	19
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
35	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
36	Computational Optimization and Applications	17
-	Engineering Optimization	17
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	17
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
-	Naval Research Logistics	17
41	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	16
42	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Systems Engineering	15
44	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Optimization	14
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	14
-	Operational Research	14
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
49	Optimization and Engineering	13
50	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	12

-	OR Spectrum	12
52	Networks	11
-	Optimization Letters	11
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	11
-	Operations Research Letters	11
-	Optimization Methods & Software	11
57	Journal of Simulation	10
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	10
-	Memetic Computing	10
60	Journal of Quality Technology	9
-	Operations Research Perspectives	9
-	Journal of Scheduling	9
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	9
-	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	9
65	International Journal of Technology Management	8
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability	8
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	8
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	8
-	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	8
70	TOP	7
-	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	7
-	Queueing Systems	7
-	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	7
74	Discrete Optimization	6
-	INFOR	6
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	6
-	Engineering Economist	6
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	6
-	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6